The Best Way to Remove Socopoco.com

Does Socopoco.com do harm to your system?
Is it malicious?
The browser is always hijacked by it?
Then you can read this post to remove it from your browser step by step right now.

What is Socopoco.com?

Socopoco.com is identified as a really hazardous browser hijacker infection, which has the ability to intrude into your computer without your notice or consent. Mostly, you may get infected by this infection from somewhere of the Internet. So if you don't want to get this trouble, you should avoid visiting suspicious websites and opening spam emails because Socopoco.com is usually planted into those stuffs by cyber criminals. Thus, it is better to remove Socopoco.com virus from the system as soon as possible.

Why should you remove Socopoco.com?

Socopoco.com is managed by cookies which may be attached to your computer once you visit various suspicious sites upon redirection. In general, these cookies are harmless because they simply collect information about what websites you visit and store your login data for easy access to online accounts in the future. Despite this, if cyber crooks are involved, these relatively harmless cookies could be used to track sensitive information required for online schemes. If your operating Windows system was protected by reliable PC protection and malware detection/removal tools, you would not need to worry about schemers endangering your virtual or financial security. Overall, we recommend you to remove Socopoco.com as soon as possible.

Tips: The manual removal is cumbersome and risky. If you make any mistakes during the removal process, it would bring unexpected damage to your computer system. Therefore, if you are a novice user, it is better option to install and run a powerful removal tool to deal with the redirect virus.

Remove Socopoco.com automatically

Manual Socopoco.com instructions are intended for experienced Windows users, who understand the dangers of deleting the wrong programs and reconfiguring Windows systems incorrectly. If you are not confident with your knowledge, please use the automatic removal instructions below. Note that you can use a free computer scanner SpyHunter to inspect your PC. (Only Scan is Free) After scan you could search and remove whitesmoke files manually.
1. Please click the following icon to download SpyHunter.

2. Click Save File.

3. Double-click on the downloaded file, select Run and complete the installation.
4. Hit the Scan Computer Now! Button and allow SpyHunter to detect running infections.
5. Click Fix Threats and all detected malware will be deleted in no time.

Malicious Browser Hijacker Manual Removal Guides:

Socopoco.com hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.

1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.

Since this tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the "Tools" menu and click the "Clear browsing data" button.

Select "Delete cookies and other site data" to delete all cookies from the list.

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window

Click the "Tools" button

Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"

Tick the "cookies" box, then click "delete"

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy

Click "Remove individual cookies"

In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"

To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie"

To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies" button

2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.

Once Socopoco.com redirect is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system's CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window:

3. Show hidden files and folders.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab.

Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4. Remove all the malicious files related to Socopoco.com hijacker manually.

%AppData%Local[random].exe

C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Warm Adivce

Socopoco.com hijacker is a harmful redirect infection to the computer. It changes the homepage and search engine totally and prevents online users from changing back, redirects them to its URL or other malicious websites, steals their personal data and displays endless pop-ups on the screen to prevent them from getting online normally and smoothly. Don't think this redirect infection is not as harmful as those stubborn viruses like Trojan horse, ransomware, worms, since this redirect can also bring those harmful viruses to infect the computer, which will greatly slow down PC and make it run as a snail and further harm to mess up system files and damage system severely.